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Daniel Thrasher
American internet personality and comedian (born 1993) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Cole Thrasher[1] (born February 24, 1993) is an American internet personality, filmmaker, actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for writing, directing, and starring in his piano-based sketch comedy videos to his self-titled YouTube channel (@danielthrasher). As of June 2025[update], his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 1.7 billion views with more than 5 million subscribers.[2]
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Personal life
Daniel Thrasher was born on February 24, 1993[3] in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.[4] He is the last of four children, having an older brother and two older sisters.[5]
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Thrasher went to Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a magnet school.[6]
Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled muffinman3000, on January 5, 2007,[2] with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011.[7]
On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote The Office Theme Song," in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme song of The Office.[8] A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went viral, and as of April 2024[update] has over 22 million views and is the fourth most-viewed video on his channel.[8][9]
In 2015, Thrasher graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts.[10]
In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a barista to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team.[11]
In 2021, American comedy duo Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning announced that a fund called the Mythical Creator Accelerator was created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022.[9][12][13]
On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, entitled Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die.[14] He also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled Daniel Thrasher Live, traveling to three states across the Midwest.[15] In October of the same year, he received a nomination for the Craft Award for Writing at the 12th Streamy Awards.[16]
Thrasher attended as a featured creator at VidCon in June 2023;[17] in May of the same year, it was revealed that he was set to feature in the US remake of British television sitcom Friday Night Dinner, titled Dinner with the Parents,[18] which premiered on Amazon Freevee on April 18, 2024.[19][20]
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Discography
Solo albums
- Quick and Sketchy (2019)
Singles
- "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018)
- "The After" (2021)
- "When You Make a Musical Promise" (2022)
- "I Play Piano Too" (2022)
- "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022)
- "Igowallah" (2023)
- "The Wiener Song" (2023)
- "Leinad's Waltz" (2024)
- "Need to Calm Down" (2025)
- "Stay Up" (2025)
- "Planes Are Falling Down" (2025)
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
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